Bed-brace.



PATENTED SEPT-J 1, 190a.

' I. WHE. SMITH.

BED BRACE.

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N0 MODEL.

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Witnesses Attorney UNITED STATES Patented September 1, 1908.

PATENT OFFICE.

JonN WM. ED. sMITH, OF FLORENCE, ALABAMA, AssieNoR OF ONE-HALF To HENRY DAwsON SMITH, OF FLORENCE, ALABAMA.

BED-BRACE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 738,079, dated September 1, 1903.

Application filed June 25, 1903- Serial No. 163,038. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN \VILLIAM ED- wARD SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Florence, in the county of Lauderdale and State of Alabama, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bed- Braces; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention is an improved bed brace adapted to be set up and adjusted or disconnected by hand without the use of any tool, wrench, of other instrument; and it consists in the construction and combination of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap, simple, and eflicient device of this character in which the yoke and tighteningbolt cannot become casually disengaged from the brace-wires in the event that the winged nut should become loose on the tighteningbolt.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view of a bed-brace embodying my improvements, showing the same attached to a bedstead. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the yoke and tightening-bolt. Fig.

is a detail sectional view of the yoke, showingthe eyes therein through which the bracewires pass and which prevent the yoke from becoming casually disengaged from the bracewires.

In. the embodiment of my invention I provide a yoke 1, which has a longitudinal bore 2 extending therethrough and is formed on one side with a projecting hub 3, which enables the bore to be lengthened without adding materially to the weight and size of the yoke. The latter, on its side opposite the said hub and near its upper and lower sides, is provided with transversely-disposed grooves 4, which are open, as shown, to receive brace-wires a. At the opposite upper and lower corners of the yoke are eyes 5, which have longitudinallydisposed cylindrical bores, each of which communicates at one end with one of the grooves 4. The brace-wires (I. pass through the said eyes, as

shown in Fig. 1, and thereby the yoke is slidably connected to the brace-wires and held thereon against the possibility of becoming casually disengaged therefrom.

The tightening-bolt 7 is provided at one end with an eye 8. The said tightening-bolt has its screw-threaded portion 9 extended through the bore of the yoke and adapted to move freely longitudinally therein, and on the outer end of the tightening-bolt is screwed a winged nut 10, by means of which the bolt may be adjusted in the yoke, as will be understood. A brace-wire Z) passes through the eye in the tightening-bolt. The said bracewire has its ends preferablysecured to screweyes 0 at the corners of the bedstead, at the foot thereof. Each of the brace-wires a is preferably attached at one end to a screw-eye (Z in one of the corners of the bedstead, at the head thereof, and has its opposite end attached to a screw-eye e, centrally disposed in one of the side rails. It will be understood that by adjusting the tightening-bolt the brace-wires may be tightened to any desired extent and that the yoke, tightening-bolt, and brace-wires are exceedingly efficient in bracing the bedstead.

Devices of this character heretofore employed are likly to become casually disengaged from the brace-wires when the adjusting-nut from any cause becomes loosened on the tightening-bolt, thus causing the yoke to become entirely disengaged from the bracewires and rendering it necessary to carefully reassemble and adjust the parts in again setting up the brace. The yoke of my improved bed-brace is provided, as hereinbefore de-' scribed, with eyes through which brace-wires a pass, which eyes are efficient in slidably connecting the yoke to the said brace-wires, while absolutely preventing the possibility of the brace-wires becoming casually disengaged from the yoke. The eye with which the tightening-bolt of my improved bed-brace is provided and through which the brace-Wire Z) IOO the construction and operation of the invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended explanation.

Having thus fully described my invention,

5 what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a bed-brace, a yoke having eyes 5 at opposite upper and lower corners to slidably engage brace-wires and retain the yoke in 10 engagement therewith, said yoke having a longitudinal bore, anda tightening-bolt adjustable longitudinally in the said bore, hav- (est-a ing' an eye at one end to engage the brace-wire and having; an adjusting-nut to bear against one side of the yoke and adjust said bolt and yoke to tighten or loosen the brace-wires, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN XVM. ED. SMITH.

Vitnesses A. B. MoRmsoN, J. R. HELDEN. 

